The ocean continues regular season 101st season in NHL history.
In the Central match of day met the leaders of the conference – “Tampa” on the road dry out “St Louis” and extended its successful streak to five matches. The main Creator of the great victory “Lightning” was the goalkeeper Andrey Vasilevsky, who made 32 saves and scored the third shutout of the season. The author of the winning goals late in the first period was Braden point.
Washington in the final period put the squeeze on Colorado and climbed to the second line in the Metropolitan division. Best player of the match was John Carlson, who scored the winning goal, Evgeny Kuznetsov handed out three assists.
“New Jersey” on home ice unexpectedly easily dealt with “Los Angeles”. The best player of the match was Taylor hall, the two goals which allowed the “devils” in the middle of the match to close all questions about the winner.
“Toronto” on the road can not cope with the attack of Philadelphia. “Pilots” for 60 minutes was applied 39 shots and scored four goals. Claude Giroux scored the 13th goal of the season and with the score 2:2 for three minutes before the end of the match, assisted on Sean Couturier.
The results of the matches of the day:
Buffalo — Ottawa 3:2 (0:0, 3:0, 0:2)
New Jersey- Los Angeles 5:1 (2:0, 2:0, 1:1)
Philadelphia — Toronto 4:2 (1:1, 0:1, 3:0)
Washington — Colorado 5:2 (1:0, 1:1, 3:1)
Columbus — Edmonton 2:7 (0:1, 0:4, 2:2)
St. Louis — Tampa Bay 0:3 (0:1, 0:0, 0:2)
Minnesota — calgary 2:1 (in shootout) (1:0, 0:1, 0:0, 0:0, 1:0)
Chicago — Florida 3:2 (in overtime) (1:0, 0:1, 1:1, 1:0)
Vegas — Carolina 2:3 (shootout) (0:1, 2:1, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
